Negatives: Fluency & Practice
Mathematics
Year 9
11 questions
~22 mins
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A worksheet focused on practicing collecting like terms involving negatives, designed to build procedural fluency and understanding of algebraic manipulation.
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Negatives: Fluency & Practice
Subject: MathematicsGrade: Year 9
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Practice Questions
Answer all questions. Show your working in the grid spaces provided.
1.
Simplify the expression: 3x - 5 + (-2x + 7).
[2 marks]2.
Combine like terms: -4a + 3b - (-2a + 5b).
[2 marks]3.
Simplify: 6y - (-3y + 4) + y.
[2 marks]4.
Express as a single term: -2(3x - 4) + 5x.
[3 marks]5.
Calculate: (-3) + 7 - (-2) + 4.
[2 marks]6.
Simplify the expression: 2a - (-a + 3) - (a - 2).
[2 marks]7.
Solve for x: 5x - (-2x + 4) = 3x + 6.
[3 marks]8.
Rewrite and simplify: -(2a - 5) + 3a.
[2 marks]9.
Construct a linear expression involving negatives that simplifies to 4x - 3.
[3 marks]10.
Identify the mistake: Simplify -3a + 4 - (-a + 2) as -3a + 4 + a - 2 = -2a + 2. Is this correct?
[3 marks]11.
Challenge: Simplify (−5x + 3) − (−2x − 7) + (4x − 2).
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- 1/1/2026
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- 1/1/2026
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